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alexander

I have a new project. It will never be finished.

About Me

Creative, moody photographer/artist

(except add the word "VERY" before "MOODY").

"There were never moments in your life when you actually saw something end, for whether you knew it or not something else was always flowering. Never a disappearance, always a transformation." ~G.D.G

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My Interests

photography, art, cooking, printmaking, reading, animation as an artform, 19th century ephemera and medical antiques, poetry (both written and visual), skeleton keys, brown liquor, Japanese cinema, airports, doing my laundry, SX-70 Polaroid, Other Music on East 4th St, the 1920s, NPR, dictionary.com and thesaurus.com, old cartoons (especially pre-1959), tacos, sometimes sleeping late but also getting up early and having the entire day ahead of you free, really good coffee that you spend an hour on the subway to get because it's so freaking amazing it just about blows your mind every time you drink it (which is just about all the time).

I'd like to meet:


People who know what the hell they want from life. People who won't piss me off.

Music:

i like all kinds~ but right now is all about:

Phosphorescent, Beat the Devil, Fuck Buttons, Hall & Oates, The Coasters, Buddy Holly & The Crickets, Doves, Galaxie 500, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Palace Music/Brothers, The Black Lips, Reigning Sound, Vampire Weekend, Genesis, Ai Em Klemm, Beach House

Movies:

I will watch just about anything you put in front of me if it's animated. I can't help it: I love cartoons and animation... so sue me.

But I also love: The Darjeeling Limited, Koyaanisqatsi, The Squid and The Whale, Slacker, Brick, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Down By Law, Pan's Labyrinth, Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance, The Big Lebowski, Ohayo! (Good Morning!), No Country For Old Men, The Host, anything by Andrei Tarkovsky

Television:

I prefer the radio.

LOST, PBS, New York Noise, the Food Network

Books:


currently reading : McSweeny's Quarterly Concern - Issue. 27

Heroes:

Jesse D, Kim G, Foley, Justyn, Tera, Pete & Liz, Bartron, Uncle Drew, sometimes Yvo

Oh. And this guy:

My Blog

A Drinking Song by : William Butler Yeats

A Drinking SongWine comes in at the mouthAnd love comes in at the eye;That's all we shall know for truthBefore we grow old and die.I lift the glass to my mouth,I look at you, and I sigh.(1916)...
Posted by alexander on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:19:00 PST

’Mother Night’ by : Jim Harrison

Mother Night When you wake at three AM you don't thinkof your age or sex and rarely your name or the plot of your life which has never broken itself down into logical pieces.At three AM you have the g...
Posted by alexander on Mon, 12 May 2008 11:04:00 PST

Slum Lords by : John Updike, and Thoughs Concerning Apartments.

My landlord has been breathing down my back RE: wether or not I want to renew. Frankly, I have never even met the man until 10 minutes ago when I found him trying to get into my apartment to "have a l...
Posted by alexander on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:59:00 PST

'Up in the sky the lovers lay in bed...' by : Gary Johnson

Up in the sky the lovers lay in bed... Up in the sky the lovers lay in bed Naked, face to face and hip to thigh, Her leg between his, his arm beneath her head, Their hands roaming freely, up in the...
Posted by alexander on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:09:00 PST

’Walking’ by : Charles Simic

WalkingI never run into anyone from the old days.It’s summer and I’m alone in the city.I enter stores, apartment houses, officesAnd find nothing remotely familiar.The trees in the park- we...
Posted by alexander on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:41:00 PST

A quote on Daylight Saving Time from Robertson Davies, 1947

I feel the same way..."I don't really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doin...
Posted by alexander on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:04:00 PST

’Where Else Can You Go’ by : Jim Daniels

Where Else Can You Go to get those wonderful T-shirtswith the pocket for your smokesthe pocket for your smokes?In all colors all sizesblue and dark blue and light blueand black and brown green and...
Posted by alexander on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:41:00 PST

Someone I cared for by : Cid Corman

Someone I cared for Someone I cared forput it to me: Whodo you think you are?I went down the listof all the manypossibilitiescarefully ? did ittwice ? but couldn't finda plausible one.That was when I ...
Posted by alexander on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:04:00 PST

’You’re So Vain’ by : Carly Simon

You're So VainYou walked into the party like you were walking onto a yachtYour hat strategically dipped below one eyeYour scarf it was apricotYou had one eye on the mirror as you watched yourself gavo...
Posted by alexander on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:43:00 PST

’What’s In My Journal’ by : William Stafford

What's In My Journal Odd things, like a button drawer. MeanThing, fishhooks, barbs in your hand.But marbles too. A genius for being agreeable.Junkyard crucifixes, voluptuous discards. Space for knickk...
Posted by alexander on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:02:00 PST